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a week for the purposes of a School Clinic, and on one afternoon a week for a
Maternity and Child Welfare Centre. This new Centre replaces the rooms rented
at St. John's Church Hall.
Plumstead Welfare Centre was enlarged, a new waiting room, with consequential
alterations, being provided on the ground floor and a second storey being added.
Arrangements were entered into with the London County Council and the local
School Medical Treatment Committee, whereby all school medical treatment work
at Plumstead is now carried out at this Centre, thus following the Eltham precedent.
The scheme for the medical examination of Toddlers continues to work satisfactorily
and to become more popular each year. Mothers cannot, of course, be
compelled to bring their children for medical inspection at these Clinics, and it is
therefore gratifying to find that each year more and more are anxious that their
children should be examined. It is a sign of the times and it means that defects
in children are found much earlier than they would be if such clinics were not
established. Many children now enter school with unhealthy conditions already
remedied instead of waiting to be discovered at a school medical inspection. A
report on the year's working will be found in Section VI.
Since my last report the following officers have left the service of the Council:—
Mrs. M. L. Morrison, Lay Organiser, who entered the service of the Council
in 1922, resigned in March.
Mr. Thomas Powell, Sanitary Inspector, who entered the service of the
Council in 1904, retired on superannuation in April.
Miss Kate Latham, Health Visitor, who entered the service of the Council
in 1917, retired on superannuation in September.
Mrs. M. Prestige, Tuberculosis Visitor, who joined the staff in 1921 when
the Tuberculosis Service was taken over by the Council, resigned
in October.
I am much indebted to the Members of the Health Committees of the Council
from whom I have received many kindnesses and the greatest possible help during
the year, and I take this opportunity of expressing my appreciation thereof. My
sincere thanks are also given to the Staff of the Department for their co-operation
and assistance during the year in dealing with the ever increasing demands made
upon them.
I am,
Mr. Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
J. MACMILLAN,
Medical Officer of Health.